TIMEOGRAPHY

From way back I can remember having a fascination about watches. From my ‘had to have’ back in the day Casio calculator watch to my favourite, the Pannerai Luminor GMT. Apart from the aesthetics of a watch it’s the concept of time itself that I’m also fascinated by. Time. Not just telling it but exploring time from a more personal perspective. It led me to ask the people around me, what does time mean to you? Each person gave a different answer, ranging from “no time for living” to “time is money” and “happiness only come in minutes”. So armed with my camera and my intrigue, I photographed various people from all walks of life capturing them as they reflect on their thoughts about what time means to them.
Jason SC powell

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  Name: P. Clayton Huggins (Poet)

  Watch: Longines

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: Time is everything, anything and nothing.

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  Name: Toby

  Watch: No watch. Just my Nokia phone.

  Q: What does time mean to you? A:  Time to me is vital. As time is going by so fast in this day and age. I try and utilise it to the best i can. Being busy pretty much seven days a week. I don’t always have time for me. So finding the right balance between work and play, down time for me is important and i give a lot of it to a lot of others. So time to me would be finding the right balance.

   

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  Name: Sophie (DJ)

  Watch: Gucci

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: Time is a gift.

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  Name: George

  Watch: Silas x Casio G-Shock

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: It’s flying past and I’m acting like I’ve got loads of it. It’s something I’ve got a feeling I need to use more wisely.

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  Name: Sabrina (Singer)

  Watch: Bailida 

  Q:What does time mean to you A: Time is the key to the soul, In time we learn to love ourselves and grow.

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  Name: Andrew

  Watch:Japanese mobile phone watch

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: Time means everything. It’s the most valuable treasure you could have. It changes everything, the beginning and end of everything.

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  Name: Elroy ‘Spoonface’ Powell (Musician)

  Watch: Phone

  Q: What does time mean to you: A: That magical miracle thing.

  It’s there but it’s not.
  Cant touch it but feel it.
  It’s mine, its yours and cant be kept.
  It’s smiles and love and tears we’ve wept.
  
  Sometimes need more than I’m given
  or want more than you get.
  It has so many faces.
  
  It’s a trickster.
  
  A punisher or a healer,
  A funny card dealer.
  
  Hard and fast or slow and infinite.
  Its that moment you cant wait for,
  that special friend that comes to set you free,
  or the enemy that you cant wait to leave.
  
  It’s bitter, it’s sweet, its icy retreat and blistering summer heat.
  
  All at once, in stages, over before it’s begun or here for ages.
  
  The lodger and the owner of the premises .
  My favourite companion, the exodus, the genesis the nurturer the nemesis.

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  Name: Eleonora

  Watch: Cavalli

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: Time is the dimension with the power to change everything: faces, minds, plans. We don’t own it, but we can use it. We can choose how to spend it, but we don’t know how much we have left. It’s never changed, yet we can perceive it so differently. It can bring experience, knowledge, healing, wisdom, regret, fulfilment, peace of mind. Ultimately it dictates who we become. Any time spent being unhappy, is wasted.

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  Name: Sadie (DJ)

  Watch: Triwa

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: Time is an understanding of how we evolve within the natural rhythms of life - the earth, our bodies, the seasons, the days, seconds.. 

  is everything ever that came before and every possibility that could come from, a single moment - time represents that precise moment for every being entity molecule or concept that could possibly ever exist - our consciousness of how we can influence these moments leads us to create a chronology through which we may attempt to understand them.

  in that sense, a moment in time, a freeze frame in a movie, captures every aspect of life itself, life, the universe and everything, an infinitessimal creative moment - that expression to some may be God, Allah, Buddha, Nature, whatever, but I guess watches are ornate objects, clocks are mounted in towers, ornate casings, so maybe it’s a representation of divinity/spirituality/worship

  Or maybe I’m just really really stoned, again.

  WHO KNOWS?

  But yeah - time, is rhythm, but the groove you choose, really is up to you.
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  Name: Ray (photographer)

  Watch: Simon Carter

  Q: What does time mean to you? A: To define the meaning of “Time” is a hard one…..it’s the biggest thing we know. You only have to look into the night sky and see the light from distant stars that no longer exist to hit home the size and depth of that little word and somewhere inside that hugeness, we are here for what amounts to the blink of an eye.

  So we have to fill that short time with as much brilliance as possible 

  I once read that “everything is on its way to somewhere” and it struck a chord with me.

  We are always running everywhere at such a speed ,that we often don’t notice the special moments

  that only resonate with us after they have gone.

  So we look back in wonder at the “good old days” 

  However,as  a photographer,i sometimes get to share moments that otherwise would be lost.                                                         

  That is the magical thing about the job that i do,

  to be able to direct the energy that flows from the subject and into the camera (and me).

  When that works ,it captures that instant in a Photograph , in a way that moving images (film) or even words cannot. 

  Such is the power of Photography

  it takes the the little bits of everyday

  that movement,that gesture,that glance…. and makes it in a strange kind of way ,immortal.

  Frozen ,forever ,in time. 

  …and i feel very lucky to be able to do that .